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PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group

ISBN-100385354207

ISBN-139780385354202

eBay Product ID (ePID)215904826

Product Key Features

Book TitleMidnight Sun

Number of Pages288 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2016

TopicThrillers / Crime, Thrillers / Suspense, Crime

GenreFiction

AuthorJo Nesbø

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight15.1 Oz

Item Length8.3 in

Item Width5.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2015-958029

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"This forcefully written story of personal defeat, despair, and salvation sends a man off to lose himself in the wilderness--where he finds himself instead." -- The New York Times Book Review "Readers who like their crime fiction cut-to-the-bone lean will love the opening pages of Jo Nesb's new, swift-moving existential thriller. . . . A compelling exploration of love, faith, the meaning of life and redemption." -- Richmond Times-Dispatch "A fun read, with a likable protagonist and a brisk, page-turning pace. Nesb is a talented storyteller and his narrative intuition is on full display." -- Los Angeles Times

Dewey Decimal839.823/74

SynopsisThe internationally acclaimed author of Blood on Snow and the Harry Hole novels now gives us the tightly wound tale of a man running from retribution, a renegade hitman who goes to ground far above the Arctic circle, where the never-setting sun might slowly drive a man insane. He calls himself Ulf--as good a name as any, he thinks--and the only thing he's looking for is a place where he won't be found by Oslo's most notorious drug lord: the Fisherman. He was once the Fisherman's fixer, but after betraying him, Ulf is now the one his former boss needs fixed--which may not be a problem for a man whose criminal reach is boundless. When Ulf gets off the bus in Kåsund, on Norway's far northeastern border, he sees a "flat, monotonous, bleak landscape . . . the perfect hiding place. Hopefully." The locals--native Sami and followers of a particularly harsh Swedish version of Christianity--seem to accept Ulf's explanation that he's come to hunt, even if he has no gun and the season has yet to start. And a bereaved, taciturn woman and her curious, talkative young son supply him with food, the use of a cabin deep in the woods, a weapon--and companionship that stirs something in him he thought was long dead. But the agonizing wait for the inevitable moment when the Fisherman's henchmen will show--the midnight sun hanging in the sky like an unblinking, all-revealing eye--forces him to question if redemption is at all possible or if, as he's always believed, "hope is a real bastard.", The internationally acclaimed author of Blood on Snow and the Harry Hole novels now gives us the tightly wound tale of a man running from retribution, a renegade hitman who goes to ground far above the Arctic circle, where the never-setting sun might slowly drive a man insane. He calls himself Ulf--as good a name as any, he thinks--and the only thing he's looking for is a place where he won't be found by Oslo's most notorious drug lord: the Fisherman. He was once the Fisherman's fixer, but after betraying him, Ulf is now the one his former boss needs fixed--which may not be a problem for a man whose criminal reach is boundless. When Ulf gets off the bus in K sund, on Norway's far northeastern border, he sees a "flat, monotonous, bleak landscape . . . the perfect hiding place. Hopefully." The locals--native Sami and followers of a particularly harsh Swedish version of Christianity--seem to accept Ulf's explanation that he's come to hunt, even if he has no gun and the season has yet to start. And a bereaved, taciturn woman and her curious, talkative young son supply him with food, the use of a cabin deep in the woods, a weapon--and companionship that stirs something in him he thought was long dead. But the agonizing wait for the inevitable moment when the Fisherman's henchmen will show--the midnight sun hanging in the sky like an unblinking, all-revealing eye--forces him to question if redemption is at all possible or if, as he's always believed, "hope is a real bastard."

LC Classification NumberPT8951.24.E83M4713